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In last week’s column about photographing snowflakes, I said I was delighted to learn about the delightful word “groppel,” meaning little globs of ice that form on snowflakes.
A couple of readers promptly noted that the word might have seemed novel to me because it’s actually “graupel,” a German term transported into English.
As an ironic addition, a particularly astute reader (who didn’t leave her name on my answering machine, or I’d give her a tip of the hat) pointed out that the term had been described in The Telegraph’s Weather Trivia on Monday, two days before the column ran.
And it was spelled correctly! Link

Thanks, David!

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